About the Partnership

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The Partnership For A Safer Cleveland provides an array of services to the City of Cleveland, and its departments - connecting city and county agencies, assisting in conference planning, facilitating groups, training, educating and evaluating.  Serving on a variety of committees over the years, the Partnership has dedicated countless hours of time, talent and expertise. 

The Partnership is able to make things happen quickly, from problem to solution, from idea to implementation; the turnaround time is greatly reduced. The Partnership is efficient and cost-effective.

The Partnership provides three basic forms of service to public agencies:

1. Participation on formal committees
2. Immediate response to requests and resolutions of problems presented by agency staff
3. Ability to be creative in anticipating needs not yet recognized by the City and introducing best practices of applied research

For more than 20 years, the Partnership has provided indirect service for the needs of many city departments, as well as making long-term commitments to numerous committees. These requests for service have not been budgeted by the City of Cleveland and the requests do not always come with enough lead-time for the Partnership to apply for government contracts or foundation grants. Over time, the Partnership has supported these consulting services with our unrestricted operating funds. As funders reduce unrestricted support, the Partnership finds it necessary to revise our funding structure and to seek a contract in advance for such services or change to a membership structure to allow agencies to retain our services. 

"The Partnership for a Safer Cleveland brings its knowledge and expertise to the Cleveland Foundation. With their ability to convene and facilitate communication, they make it possible to address the safety-related issues at hand in a skilled, professional and informative manner."

- Lisa Bottoms, Program Director for Human Services
and Child & Youth Development
The Cleveland Foundation

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How the Partnership Can
Help Your Organization

• Consult with your leaders to solve safety concerns
• Provide educational workshops for your staff on working with at-risk youth, communication with young people, gangs, violence prevention and more
• Facilitate meetings to address safety and violence issues
• Provide information on effective programs for youth development and violence prevention
• Train and recruit volunteers to implement YLGC in schools or community centers

The experts at the Partnership serve as consultants and resources to public and private groups, working to prevent and lessen violence in their communities and to promote youth development opportunities. We use our broad experience, training and community relationships to bring leaders together.